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    I think it was that i also was looking ad on ebay wasserfund! crasy it was sold for 6000euro, it woud be the bottom over the I in a collection, besides if you got Adolf Hitler's Uniform collection

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    There's one for sale right now on ebay :
    Enigma machine original - eBay (item 120475037343 end time Oct-06-09 10:36:52 PDT)

    Regards,

    Jos

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    Amazing ! there isn't enough duct tape in the world for me to be able to put one of those things together

    Godspeed in your putogetherenigmamachine mission Mr. Rahlenbeck !

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    Thats a nice one, the 3 rotor luftwaffemodel is my favorite, this one is nice to though with the rare external display. Nice... But lets see what it will go for. Its crazy how many Enigmas have surficed on e-bay these last months.
    Hopefully my homepage will be up soon so you can follow the process of making the Enigma...

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    Hi,
    I am lucky enough to own 2 enigma machines which were liberated from the German's on the 9th of May 1945 here on the Island of Jersey, Channel Islands. Both are the standard 3 rotar machines. The chap who took them initially though they were typewriters. It was only when he got them home he realised there was no where for the paper to go. He put them in a cupboard in his attic where they stayed until I came along one day and liberated them myself. I was also lucky enough to get the German radio he had also got his hands on as well as a lot of other small items. I have just seen that a similar machine to mine was sold at Christies Auction 2 weeks ago. The machine they sold had replacement rotars and was expected to fetch between £50,000 and £60,000. The actual price realised was £133,250.00. That was totally amazing, but I was given my machines and therefore would not want or need to sell them. If you would like to see more of my collection then go to Home
    I am always looking for soldbuch or wehrpass as well as photo albums and other dokuments from German soldiers who were stationed in the Channel Islands [Kanalinseln] during the Occupation, if you have anything that you want to part with for my museum archive then please email me at damienhorn1@gmail.com

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    Here's the box only, I it bought on Ebay UK a couple of years ago for the starting bid of £20, listed under WW1 military items, as a German Ammo box, no other bidders, just proves that there can be a lucky find on ebay occasionally.
    The seller had picked up the box in a house clearance and waxed it before putting it on ebay, I did ask ask reference the contents, but it was empty when they found it.
    Regards
    Gary
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    Magnificent. Incredibly rare items. There is a cracking example at the "U-Boat Story" museum in Birkenhead (near Liverpool) in England. That's as close as I have got to one so far!

    Regards,

    Carl

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    Dont know if this will be of help, but if you google Enigma Nachbau there's a link that might help with a rebuild.
    Also if memory serves a german highschool published the CAD drawings to fabricate an M4.

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    Dear Rahlenbeck,
    I would guess that you have rather more than 1% of the parts. Many of these could at least provide patterns.
    If you start trading in bits please let me know.
    As you say, most are wehrmacht/luftwaffe, but there was a lot of commonality with the naval m3's and m4's (eg wooden case locks and spare bulb racks).

    Good luck with your project.

    Steve B

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    Some notes about enigma
    When I started researching enigma, I quickly discovered a bewildering array of different models, variants and accessories Far from being produced by a single company, enigma machines were manufactured by several firms who in turn specialised in different variants. To make things even more complicated, the machines from Heimsoeth und Rincke (H&R) (i.e. the main Enigma manufacturer) were all produced at Konski und Kruger (also in Berlin). H&R can be seen as a developer, whilst K&K was the contractor. Of the other manufacturers, I gather that Ertel-Werk in Munich only produced 3-wheel army machines, whilst Olympia produced both army machines and M4s. These all carry the manufacturing mark ‘aye’. The machines from H&R (produced at K&K, still carried the H&R manufacturing mark 'jla')
    A number of accessories/upgrade devices were designed, but fortunately, not all were implemented before the war's end. One example was the Lückenfüllerwalze (gap-fill wheel) which implemented irregular stepping. It allowed field configuration of notches in all 26 positions. If the number of notches was a relative prime of 26 and the numbers of notches were different for each wheel, the stepping would be more unpredictable. Like the Umkehrwalze-D it also allowed the internal wiring to be reconfigured. Ertel-Werk factory in München was close to completing an order for 12,000, when it was overrun by the allies.

    Today, Ertel-Werk is best known for producing children’s die cast toys such as those for the popular “Thomas the Tank Engine series”!

    I imagine that there were many subcontractors…..

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